Eastern Tennessee Thread

[bairo]

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If I saw you come at me with that needle, id spit an egg out too

Rabbits huh, horse stalls make great rabbit areas. Tie dye them in an ovaro paint pattern and tell DH they are mini's

Cold ok...drafts not OK. Sneak out there late one night and see if you feel any draft at all. If no, you should be good. I broke ice this am in the waterers. Yet one of the GLWs had the energy to yell at me for disturbing her privacy as she was already in a box laying (it was barely light out)

 

[bairo]

wanted to share one of them Appalachian old timers piece of knowledge that I ran across. How to sex a chick..... pick em up by the neck with 2 fingers. If they draw the legs up, it is a female. If it lets its legs dangle or runs in the air, its a male. Can you picture me at the brooder doing that

 

[NellaBean]

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And if they hang there limply....you broke their neck!

 

[stanglover2001]

You know what? TSC workers told us when we were first starting out to hold them by the neck, and upside down... you know how weird we felt holding chicks upside down? Was accurate though... lol! Don't do it anymore... just wait it out!

 

[stanglover2001]

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And if they hang there limply....you broke their neck!

That really made me laugh! Wasn't really "funny" just the way you said it!

 

[grawg]

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x2 although it might not be an egg!

 

[bairo]

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And if they hang there limply....you broke their neck!

LOL

 

[tennesseeckn]

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And if they hang there limply....you broke their neck!

 

[TNBarnQueen]

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If I saw you come at me with that needle, id spit an egg out too

Rabbits huh, horse stalls make great rabbit areas. Tie dye them in an ovaro paint pattern and tell DH they are mini's

Cold ok...drafts not OK. Sneak out there late one night and see if you feel any draft at all. If no, you should be good. I broke ice this am in the waterers. Yet one of the GLWs had the energy to yell at me for disturbing her privacy as she was already in a box laying (it was barely light out)

Last year..for a few days... I had to go in to the run after dark and grab them one at a time and chuck them through the chicken door to the hen house. Looks like that will be the case this year too. Seems they require retraining every season. Their run is pretty open and the roosts are against the hen house so it depends on what direction the wind blows. The majority of the time our winds are from the North. It looks so funny though....the smaller hens snuggle down under the big hens at night. My bantams do not go out unless the weather is nice. Having feathered leg chickens can be a pain but I just keep their hen house door locked and open it to let them out to play if it is dry. They are pretty content to stay inside but are hilarious to watch when they do finally get to go out!

 

[tennesseeckn]

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You giving me a heart attack!!!! Are we talking about the wormer I mixed up for you??

Oh what a dunce I am!!!!!!!!!!

I have not idea what I was thinking other than all my other animals are syringe + Med = inject! Well..I am glad I used diabetic syringes. At least it is in their system...everyone was standing erect this morning. What an idiot I felt like when Bario called. Thank goodness I stopped at the bantams...now the LF will get the yucky taste...

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There are actually pour on wormers for hoofed animals. It just absorbs thru their system...so...at least this time I have learned a good lesson. I guess with me everyone needs to be very detailed.

I am so glad they're OK!!! I'm also really glad that everyone else on the forum explained how we're REALLY supposed to do it, cause I would've been right there with you! I think God makes my animals and kids stouter than most. They have to be Daphne-proof.

I ran out of my nice, organic feed and the guy that sells it won't be in town until tomorrow. I had to go out and make it from scratch like I used to, before I had a gajillion chickens. Grinding field peas and alfalfa pellets... mixing it with scratch and nutri-balancer. Whew. I was truly insane to do that every day.